socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets, nations collapse in the midday lord i need to cool my head. they re calling it a brave new world, freedom for brave new boys and girls. what good is freedom if you re dead. muhammed: if you look around my city right now a lot of people are choosing death over life because the life that they look at doesn t feel like it s substantiated by anything. anthony: in the freetown neighborhood now called belmont he lives with his 81 year old granny, neila nathim. muhammed: the thing is that recently we ve had a lot of people, people who i ve known, who i ve grew up with who ve gone to fight in syria, who left here. i mean they will tell you that the official count is 140. i would say it s more. anthony: you d say it s more? muhammed: i d say it s more. anthony: and why do you think people would go?
don t know what they re saying. anthony: much like a lot of reggae his songs call out the socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets nations collapse in the midday lord i need to cool my head. they re calling it a brave new world, freedom for brave new boys and girls. what good is freedom if you re dead. muhammed: if you look around my city right now a lot of people are choosing death over life because the life that they look at doesn t feel like it s substantiated by anything. anthony: in the freetown neighborhood now called belmont he lives with his 81 year old granny, neila nathim. muhammed: the thing is that recently we ve had a lot of people, people who i ve known, who i ve grew up with who ve gone to fight in syria, who left here. i mean they will tell you that the official count is 140.
anthony: much like a lot of reggae his songs call out the socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets nations collapse in the midday lord i need to cool my head. they re calling it a brave new world, freedom for brave new boys and girls. what good is freedom if you re dead. muhammed: if you look around my city right now a lot of people are choosing death over life because the life that they look at doesn t feel like it s substantiated by anything. anthony: in the freetown neighborhood now called belmont he lives with his 81 year old granny, neila nathim. muhammed: the thing is that recently we ve had a lot of people, people who i ve known, who i ve grew up with who ve gone to fight in syria, who left here. i mean they will tell you that the official count is 140. i would say it s more. anthony: you d say it s more? muhammed: i d say it s more.
muhammed muwakil s father took part in the attempted coup. he grew up in fact in the jamaat al-muslimeen compound, but he s chosen to take a different path, music. he s the leader of freetown collective, a band named after a port-of-spain neighborhood that was once a settlement for freed slaves. muhammed: they say we can t make no love song, live fast and we die young, they say we re doomed to fail. they say we re prone to violence, and i sink in silence. don t know what they re saying. anthony: much like a lot of reggae his songs call out the socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets nations collapse
don t know what they re saying. anthony: much like a lot of reggae his songs call out the socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets nations collapse in the midday lord i need to cool my head. they re calling it a brave new world, freedom for brave new boys and girls. what good is freedom if you re dead. muhammed: if you look around my city right now a lot of people are choosing death over life because the life that they look at doesn t feel like it s substantiated by anything. anthony: in the freetown neighborhood now called belmont he lives with his 81 year old granny, neila nathim. muhammed: the thing is that recently we ve had a lot of people, people who i ve known, who i ve grew up with who ve gone to fight in syria, who left here. i mean they will tell you that